How to Use tetchy in a Sentence

tetchy

adjective

• No wonder Biden is tetchy when asked about the subject.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
• Some of the friction — never mind the crises at hand — may also stem from tetchy personal relations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• In 2017, parts of Silver Springs State Park had to be shut down because the monkeys were getting tetchy about human visitors.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• Perhaps a sequel might suggest that Adolf Hitler’s teetotalism put him in a tetchy mood; a relaxing glass of schnapps might have kept him out of Poland.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2018
• But the rail system and its overhead electric catenary wire system - a tetchy tangle of wires dating to 1907 - are anything but pretty.
  — Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2014
• As then, so now: The great redeemer of South Asia’s long, sweltering summer is a reluctant, tetchy traveler.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• For all the tetchy lockdown sparring in between these scenes, there’s finally something to be said for togetherness.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• But pursuing less tetchy relations with China, the policy of the KMT for decades, is becoming ever less marketable.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2020
• The administration has at times had a tetchy relationship with the company after excluding it from an event held to promote EVs.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• North Korea's tetchy relationship with China is driven by its desire not to appear like a satellite state, according to Kelly.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 May 2017
• The travel show in which a tetchy British comedian joins celebrities on jaunts to various international locales?
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2020
• The men are more problematic: Gere's tetchy exasperation often reads like actorly frustration or boredom, and while Coogan works hard at finding what makes Paul tick, like a time bomb, the effort feels, well, effortful.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• Widely criticised for the unadventurous nature of United's performances for much of this season, Mourinho has been increasingly tetchy of late.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018

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